Software test automation has moved beyond a luxury to become a necessity. Applications and systems have grown ever larger and more complex, and manual testing simply cannot keep up. As technology changes, and more organizations move into agile development, testing must adapt and quickly. Test automation is essential, but poor automation is wasteful how do you know where your efforts will take you?
Authors Dorothy Graham and Mark Fewster wrote the field’s seminal text, Software Test Automation, which has guided many organizations toward success. Now, in Experiences of Test Automation, they reveal test automation at work in a wide spectrum of organizations and projects, from complex government systems to medical devices, SAP business process development to Android mobile apps and cloud migrations. This book addresses both management and technical issues, describing failures and successes, brilliant ideas and disastrous decisions and, above all, offers specific lessons you can use.
Salient Features * Proven advice to empower development organizations to save time by mirroring others' experiences and save money by avoiding others' mistakes * Insightful case studies from a wide variety of domains, including aerospace, pharmaceuticals, insurance, technology, and telecommunications * Focuses on the basic issues, rather then technology trends, to give the book a long shelf life
About the Author Dorothy Graham is a world-renowned consultant, speaker, and author with nearly forty years of experience in software testing. After nineteen years with Grove Consultants, she now concentrates on conferences and writing. She was Programme Chair for the 1993 and 2009 EuroSTAR conferences and holds the European Excellence Award in Software Testing. Mark Fewster has thirty years of software testing and automation experience. As developer and manager for a multi-platform graphical application, he designed an architecture for long-lasting test automation. With Grove Consultants since 1993, he provides training and consultancy in all aspects of software testing. Graham and Fewster coauthored the popular book Software Test Automation (Addison-Wesley, 1999).
Contributed chapter lead authors include Lisa Crispin, Henri van de Scheur, Ken Johnston, Bo Roop, John Kent, Ane Clausen, Elfriede Dustin, Alan Page, Stefan Mohacsi, Simon Mills, Jason Weden, Bryan Bakker, Antti Jaaskelainen, Christoph Mecke, Bjorn Boisschot, Michael Williamson, Lars Wahlberg, Jonathan Kohl, Albert Farré Benet, Seretta Gamba, Wim Demey, Ursula Friede, John Fodeh, Mike Baxter, Ross Timmerman, Ed Allen, and Harry Robinson.
Table of Contents * Reflections on the Case Studies (by Dorothy Graham and Mark Fewster ) * A Management Issues * B Technical Issues * C Conclusion * Chapter 1: An Agile Team’s Test Automation Journey: The First Year (by Lisa Crispin) * Chapter 2: The Ultimate Database Automation (by Henri van de Scheur) * Chapter 3: Moving to the Cloud: The Evolution of TiP, Continuous Regression Testing in Production (by Ken Johnston and Felix Deschamps) * Chapter 4: The Automator Becomes the Automated (by Bo Roop) * Chapter 5: Autobiography of an Automator: From Mainframe to Framework Automation (by John Kent) * Chapter 6: Project 1: Failure!, Project 2: Success! (by Ane Clausen) * Chapter 7: Automating the Testing of Complex Government Systems (by Elfriede Dustin) * Chapter 8: Device Simulation Framework (by Alan Page) * Chapter 9: Model-Based Test-Case Generation in ESA Projects (by Stefan Mohacsi and Armin Beer) * Chapter 10: Ten Years On and Still Going (by Simon Mills) * Chapter 11: A Rising Phoenix from the Ashes (by Jason Weden) * Chapter 12: Automating the Wheels of Bureaucracy (by Damon Yerg [A Pseudonym]) * Chapter 13: Automated Reliability Testing Using Hardware Interfaces (by Bryan Bakker) * Chapter 14: Model-Based GUI Testing of Android Applications (by Antti Jääskeläinen, Tommi Takala, and Mika Katara) * Chapter 15: Test Automation of SAP Business Processes (by Christoph Mecke, Melanie Reinwarth, and Armin Gienger) * Chapter 16: Test Automation of a SAP Implementation (by Björn Boisschot) * Chapter 17: Choosing the Wrong Tool (by Michael Williamson) * Chapter 18: Automated Tests for Marketplace Systems: Ten Years and Three Frameworks (by Lars Wahlberg) * Chapter 19: There’s More to Automation Than Regression Testing: Thinking Outside the Box (by Jonathan Kohl) * Chapter 20: Software for Medical Devices and Our Need for Good Software Test Automation (by Albert Farré Benet, *Christian Ekiza Lujua, Helena Soldevila Grau, Manel Moreno Jáimez, Fernando Monferrer Pérez, and Celestina Bianco) * Chapter 21: Automation through the Back Door (by Supporting Manual Testing) (by Seretta Gamba) * Chapter 22: Test Automation as an Approach to Adding Value to Portability Testing (by Wim Demey) * Chapter 23: Automated Testing in an Insurance Company: Feeling Our Way (by Ursula Friede) * Chapter 24: Adventures with Test Monkeys (by John Fodeh) * Chapter 25: System-of-Systems Test Automation at NATS (by Mike Baxter, Nick Flynn, Christopher Wills, and Michael Smith) * Chapter 26: Automating Automotive Electronics Testing (by Ross Timmerman and Joseph Stewart) * Chapter 27: BHAGs, Change, and Test Transformation (by Ed Allen and Brian Newman) Chapter 28: Exploratory Test Automation: An Example Ahead of Its Time (by Harry Robinson and Ann Gustafson Robinson) * Chapter 29: Test Automation Anecdotes * Appendix: Tools
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